Nostalgia

The year is 1981 and it’s the latest in our look-back series. Forty years on and memories and recollections of...

When you think of many of the most iconic moments in football, it often isn't just the images that play...

In 2000, the ‘old’ Wembley was closed and, eventually, demolished. Since reopening in 2007, all FA Cup Semi-Finals have been...

Goalkeepers are often one of the most under-appreciated, and most heavily criticised players on a football pitch. When they play...

As the quasi-famous and somewhat tedious football chant goes, “There’s only one (insert player of choice)”. But is there? The...

16th August 2008. Bolton Wanderers 3 Stoke City 1. It was Stoke's first top-flight fixture in 23 years, and it...

In a generic fixture in 1997, Des Linton leapt into the air when an opposition player made a dangerous challenge....

Eric Cantona. Manchester United legend. Possibly, the first cult hero of the Premier League. The ultimate maverick, adored by the...

With Liverpool and Manchester United both currently in the hunt for the title for the first time since 2009, the...

On May 10, 2000, the Dons went down, Bradford stayed up, and Leeds went to Europe. The effects of that...

By Joe Miller Throughout my time in the beautiful game, I have met some interesting and some not some so...

While most people watch football as a positive experience, as a release from outside pressures and troubles, there will always...

For fans over a certain age, mention Wimbledon and the infamous ‘Crazy Gang’ will soon work its way into the...

By Cameron Pope In the eyes of many a neutral, West Yorkshire club Huddersfield Town will long be the lower-division...

Eastern Europe in the ’70s and ’80s was a dark and mysterious place to us in the West. Contrasting ideologies...

With football currently suspended for the foreseeable, the best cure for your football fix is to look back through football...

Pink football kits have always been that type of kit that has raised eyebrows and one that are like marmite;...

It is a Friday morning. You are preparing to coach your players for tomorrow’s fixture against a promotion contender. You...

Team talks can be tricky things. Say the wrong thing at the wrong time and the result can be disastrous....

With Spurs currently flying high at the top of the Premier League and everyone having had a look at Jose...

James Bolam: Brazil 1982 One of the beauties of football, but also one of its tragedies is that the best...

You’d struggle to find anyone other than misty-eyed Chelsea fans who’d count this as a classic. Nearly a quarter-century on,...

With a new series of Strictly Come Dancing having started recently, it bought back memories of when John Barnes was...

In previous instalments, you have been ‘treated’ to the ramblings of a seriously annoyed middle-aged guy suffering from a severe...

A few weeks ago I started griping. Griping and shouting at the clouds, you might say. As a slightly grumpy...

Most of us these days have at one time or another owned a football shirt or two. Currently, kits have...

Although Shamrock Rovers were unable to topple Zlatan Ibrahimovic's AC Milan side in the UEFA Europa League, it was a...

Football shirts have never been as popular as they are now, as they have become a multi-billion pound industry. Kits...

The Intertoto Cup was never anything other than a bizarre wee competition. Set up in 1961, partly as a way...

Football grounds are the essence of football’s material infrastructure. They matter to us. Our complaints about the soulless ‘blandscape’ of...

When you think of the 2000/01 edition of the UEFA Champions League, you probably think of Bayern Munich’s triumph in...

From skimming his lyrics, or even just the titles of his numerous back catalogue of songs, it soon becomes clear...

The Nineteenth of June marked a day, which David de Gea and Manchester United fans all across the world would...

Every league needs rivalries to stand out from the average game. These matches are what fans look forward to at...

Matt Abbott tells us how days out following non-league Blyth Spartans around northern never regions helped to rekindle his love...

In his sweeping account of football in Britain, The Game of Our Lives, David Goldblatt describes 'a thick web of...

We’ve all heard of the term ‘American Dream’. A person succeeding despite the odds with grit, hard work and determination...

The phrase 'too good to go down' has been used for many years, sometimes accurately and sometimes with blind loyalty....

  My Love For Italian Football. Italian football is known for its revolutionary defensive tactics or catenaccio (the chain), which...

In the eleven qualification campaigns since the 1998 World Cup, poor management, squad in-fighting, an abrasive fan culture and general...

It's fair to say that when it comes to growing up a Scotland fan, I got my timings horribly wrong....

“Tonight at half-past eight o’clock, a number of gentlemen met at No. 3 Eglinton terrace for the purpose of forming...

As the season progressed into the early weeks of 1993, Sky continued to pour bucket-loads of money into hyping and...

In the eleven qualification campaigns since the 1998 World Cup, poor management, squad in-fighting, an abrasive fan culture and general...

“And then dance and drink and screw Because there's nothing else to do.” – Pulp, Common People The nineties gave...

Let me take you back in time... to the summer of 1992 to be precise. Sky Television had just taken...

In normal times, those with a footballing affliction would be starting to think about pre-season in June and July, looking...

Interestingly, over the last decade, the nature of football has changed. From a tactical standpoint, the next generation of managers...

You may not know this, but there was a time when Carlisle United were top of the league. The English...

The movers move, the shakers shake, the winners rewrite history (New Model Army, High, 2007) Having a teenage son take...